Month: June 2015

by Deborah Silliman Wolfe/College of Engineering Justin Wilkerson, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio, is one of 35 faculty to receive the nationally competitive Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award administered by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU). “This accolade is a testament of

Six new research projects will receive $20,000 in seed funding from the Office of the Vice President for Research in FY 2016. The Grants for Research Advancement and Transformation (GREAT) funding will allow the researchers and their collaborators to conduct preliminary studies in new areas and assemble data that will position the research for competitive

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Office of the Vice President for Research announce the selection of two new research projects to receive $125,000 each through the Connecting through Research Partnerships (Connect) Program. Funding begins Sept. 1, 2015. The projects will investigate sustainable biofuels and a vaccine to

By Joanna Carver/Public Affairs Specialist Here’s a way to expedite that apocalyptic scenario in which robots take over the world: 3-D print the robots. Electrical and computer engineering student Eric Wineman and some of his fellow students at UTSA had a similar idea, not to bring about the end of the world but for the

By Joanna Carver/Public Affairs Specialist Mechanical engineering senior Christian Trevino was just goofing around in her robotics lecture class last fall when she took her assignment—to make a computer simulation of a dancing pendulum—and turned it into a disco dance party. She had no way of knowing where it would lead. “I ended up adding

Congratulations to UTSA’s Roadrunner Racing Formula Team who placed 17 out of 80+ international university teams at the Formula Competition held in Lincoln, Nebraska June 17 – 20, 2015. Below are the UTSA results from Formula SAE Lincoln 2015. 5th in Cost 7th in Fuel Efficiency 10th in Endurance 36th in Design 37th in

Do you have a passion for the construction and/or engineering fields? If so, apply for the Women’s Construction Leadership Seminar! The Women’s Construction Leadership Seminar will select collegiate, female leaders to participate in a two-day event that will challenge and develop their leadership skills. Participants will gain valuable experience and industry knowledge! Qualified candidates are

Congratulations to The University of Texas at San Antonio Society of Automotive Engineer’s Baja team who competed in the Baja SAE competition in Portland, Oregon earlier this spring. The team placed 16 out of 100 universities in the rock crawl event, (to see the video here) and placed 39 in the hill climb event

Matt Reilly was brand new to the biomedical engineering department at UTSA when he had an odd conversation with a glaucoma surgeon about three surgeries he’d had to do on Christmas Day. Three kids had been playing together with their new paintball guns without protective gear, and wound up with optic nerve trauma. “It was

The 37th San Antonio Prefreshman Engineering Program (SA-PREP) opens this week with more than 1,700 participants registered to attend the seven-week program June 15-July 30. The academic levels of the program — PREP I, PREP II, PREP III and PREP IV — are presented over seven weeks through lectures, projects, seminars and hands-on activities that

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